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Descartes’ meditations based on the rational authority and the existence of God left not only the metaphor of foundationalism and the philosophical task of seeking the Archimedes point of knowledge, but also the Cartesian anxiety that troubled philosophers. Cartesian anxiety promotes the opposition between objectivism and relativism, which is not only the epistemological question but also concerning the significance of ontology. Sellars’ criticism of the metaphor of foundationalism, although it advances the revelation of Cartesian anxiety in epistemology, still takes infinite regression as a prejudice to solve its problem. Cartesian anxiety still disturbs Sellars’ criticism of the myth of the given in the level of ontology.